Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-01

| uea.h OF mrs. Anna Dearborn Evans
widow Of the late G Forge Evans. winch o.
CURED sunday, Jan. Both, will carry sorrov
many friends throughout the country
epiesent'he three generations from youth
10 age, whom she had drawn to herself in The
course of an exceptionally long and ;n,ara..
ing lie. Although the duration of her lie
surpassed by more than score of wear. rho
rsaimists limit. such was tho
strength of her hold upon life and
ner enjoyment of it through her we'll.
preserved vigor Of mind and bodv thu,
the news of her death will be received with
| surprise BY her friends, especially those who
oia not see her in the last two or three wear.
OF ner ilfe The event which fills 90 manv
" "hom she was near and dear with keen
sense OF bereavement is of public interest IA
~eii' since 1t marks the close of a length of
Gays not ordinarily bestowed upon humanity.
ana suggests the history of lite, large part
VI winch was passed among notable men,
See"es ana associations. She Was born IN
Dover. N. H., Sept 20, 1894 Her father
Lew Dearborn, relative of Gen. Dearbo,n
OF Revolutionary fame, died while she wa,
IN infancy, and her mother soon after married.
Coi. oeth Spring who owned and lived upon
oprlngs Island IN the Saco river. Here she
passed happy girlhood. She delighted in
hei oio age to tell of the pleasures which she
enjoyed In that beautiful and secluded home
among which were adventurous feats and un-
dertakings not included in the ordinary cur
rlculum OF fashionable training, to which On
portunlty invited and the exuberance of her
health and spirits compelled her. She passed
some years at a school Of high repute at that
time in Boston, kept BY two English
ladies'. Miss Saunders and Miss Beach.
Inc love of the beat literature, and the
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graced Mrs. Evans through life indi.
Gated that her teachers deserved their
reputation and were competent and consci
entious, noble women, fit to form Young
minds to noble w0manhood.
While visiting brother who resided in
Haliowell. she met George Evans, A rising
Young lawyer, two wears her junior, destined
TO distinguished services to his country and
great name among his couDtrymen. They
were married In October, 1920, and went to
live in Gardiner. Her husband began his
long and honorable public career in 1925 as a
representative in the legislature. where he
continued four wears, serving the last year as
Speaker. In 1929 he was elected representa-
tive in Congress and from that time
until l847. he was continuously in
Congress, the last six years of
the period senator. George Evans was the
who were the leaders of political warfare in
those days. Mrs. Evans with her hus-
band large portion of the time in Washing
ton, at period when the custom of taking
Their wives and families with them to the
capital did not prevail among Congressman as
it now does. The enthusiasm with which
she always referred to the triumphs which
were so thick upon her brilliant aud honored
husband and 10 the society of
the noble men and accomplished
women of the republican court OF that time,
proved the love and admiration in which she
held her husband, and her keen appreciation
of all the greatness and interest of her sur
roundings. Her "reminiscences of those days
and her impressions of the great men then
in their prime-Webster, Clay. Calhoun,
Adams, were most vivid and interesting, and
such was the interest she maintained in them
that she could readily be induced to open the
rich stores Of her experience and memory.
At the close of Mr.. Evans public life at Wash
ington he returned to Maine and lived there
until his death at Portland in 1867.
In 1874 she and her daughter. Mrs. Lally.
with whom she was living, took up their res
idence in Augusta. Here, among the friends
of her early married life and the new friends
she had the power, 81 unusual at her time Of
life, to attract, she passed the remainder of
ner lie, not merely wearing IL away ana
waving for the summons which. according to
the order of nature was ever near, but enjov-
iug it as a priced boom and sharing in the
interests OF her friends and neighbors, old and
young alike.
Two years ago she met with an accidental
! fall which, while it seemed to cause NJ
specific injury, yet gave such shock TO her
system to impair materially her vital
forces and to accelerate the decay incident
to her advanced years. Prior to that mis-
fortune she good humoredly resented any
hint of physical infirmity and declared that
she knew hothing whatever of
old age; and, indeed the brightness
of her eyes, the erectness of her carriage and
the elasticity of her step indicated that her
boast was not an idle and unfounded on.
Her passing away was such as she would
have asked for-''to cease upon the midnight
with no pain No sketch can do justice to
such character and life as hers. 1t is to be
hoped that her memory and the experiences
of her eventtul life will be worthily preserved
in some memorial carefully wrought by
loving and faithful chronicler.